Admission Requirements
Introduction to Programming (course).
Without having passed this course, participation is not possible.
Description
Robots and other intelligent agents are playing an increasing role in our society. Think about chatbots, telephone bots, robots in education at school, and robots in airports or restaurants, and even elderly with dementia. Some of these technologies even serve a social function for example as companions. But how do you actually program or script human-agent interaction (HAI)? How do you ensure a pleasant dialogue? How do you respond to a human? How do you measure what a human thinks, and how do you do it in a smart way so that the human doesn't find it annoying? Often, developing a pleasant interaction means dealing with different AI techniques, all of which are powerfull but not perfect. Further, novel techniques such as LLMs and TTS change the way we interact with AI rapidly. In this course, you will learn how to shape and program the interaction between humans and intelligent agent by making use of AI techniques,copnversational principles, and different modalities, and you learn how to evaluate your design using test subjects using an appropriate experimental setup.
Recommended prior knowledge:
Human cognition (Course: Intro Cognitive Science)
Programming, Python, (Course: Introduction to programming)
Course Objectives
- Remember and understand the different theoretical concepts underlying Human agent interaction
- Apply these theoretical concepts in the design of in interactive agent
- Implement the design using suitable technology including but not limited to social robots, chat bots, virtual agents, TTS, STT, computer vision, etc...
- Analyse and evaluate the implemented design using an appropriate experimental setup with human test subjects.
- Collaborate as a group.
Timetable
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Questions? Watch the video, read the instructions, or contact the ISSC helpdesk. Note: Joint Degree students from Leiden/Delft should merge the information from both Leiden and Delft MyTimetables to see a complete schedule. This video explains how to do that.
Mode of Instruction
Lectures: On-site.
Project: On-site (lab) and in Robot lab: a group project
Assessment Method
Exam (individual) (50%) (must be >=5 to pass course)
Project (group project) (50%) (must be >=5 to pass course)
passing the course means average grade >=5.5
The instructor will inform the students about when the review and debriefing of the exam takes place.
Exam is held half-way the course. You must pass the exam >=5 to be able to continue the course. If you fail the first time, there is one resit two weeks later.
There is no resit possibility for the project.
Reading List
Bartneck et al. "Human-Robot Interaction: An Introduction." (online! dont buy it)
Selected papers and articles referenced during class.
Registration
Starting from the academic year 2022-2023, you as a student are responsible for enrolling in a timely manner, which means 14 or 28 days before the start of the course. You can do this via MyStudymap. You need to do this twice a year: once for the courses you want to take in semester 1 and once for the courses you want to take in semester 2.
Enrollment for courses in the first semester is possible from July; enrollment for courses in the second semester is possible from December. For more information, see this page (tab Mathematics and Natural Sciences).
Please note that it is compulsory to register for every exam and retake. Not being registered for a course means that you are not allowed to participate in the final exam of the course.
Extensive FAQ on MyStudymap can be found here.
Contact
Education coordinator LIACS bachelors